Show editor r leroy armstrong ot of the herald republican who was vas one of the governors party at the reception in in the tabernacle last friday evening gh ashes es his views of the effects of the farmers school in this city as follows in the sunday issue of his paper what is the good of the farm school at brigham city on friday iii night lit occurred the closing exercises of the farm school which tor for the week had been occupying the attention of 0 a large number of farmers their wives and children and the expert labor of 0 the very best equipped teachers in the agricultural college for a week some hundreds of people had been receiving the results of all that science and experimentation peri and ability can do for the farmer and for or the farm governor spry addressed a great audience in the tabernacle and there were other exercises which added to the interest of the occasion but the good cooj of the farm school it if it did any good at all was what the farmers learned previous to that friday the governors I 1 night meeting address and that of principal merrill men ill i ot of the high school and the reading and the singing simply emphasized uie the I 1 I 1 acceptance of the farm school by the people the question is were the I 1 men and women who passe passed d out of I 1 the building shaking hands with the I 1 governor better fitted tor for farm work than they acre atthe begin iii 0 i the week essaw arc WS saW and we believe they were only a little while ago any farmer j who would have talked of phosphates in his soil would have been laughed out oat of every assembling place ot of farmers they read books on a agriculture gri or on oil stock raising or take papers on farm topics you could i I 1 tell a farmer wherever you saw liim him but you tell him much you tell him anything about farming I 1 he stand for it ile he would laugh at it you until lie he found you I 1 in earnest and then he would run you oft off the place with a flail and his business showed more loss and less profit than any other in the world the marvel was not that farmers did not get rich but that they did not at go to the poorhouse pool house now they study they are willing to admit there is something in science as applied to the farm they cordially welcome help in their work they study their soils and yield to the argument of chemicals they not only pay taxes to support the agricultural college but they welcome the men who ho come from the college to bring instruction nearer home I 1 I 1 because of these farm schools farms tn ta utah will pay better in future than they have in the past land will raise bigger crops and the profit will be greater there will be improvement in livestock there will be betterment in tile the home there will be less of objection and more ot of attraction in farm I 1 life I 1 re this is what hat comes of such weeks as that of the farm school at brigham Erig ham more happiness more health and i more money profit will come to the farmers of utah there is no more important work there is no greater triumph both for the farmer of 0 the present and tor for the rising generation of boys and girls born ara and reared on the farm arm th this as work of tile the college and the farmers of the state is tremendously valuable its good can be measured in both human life and in money |